Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
This Day in History
Nazi Germany’s troops enter Paris during World War II; TWA Flight 847 hijacked; Stars and Stripes adopted as official U.S. flag; Leftist guerrilla Che Guevara and real estate mogul Donald Trump born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
Breakfast News
‘Like dominoes’: Utah homes burn as wildfires menace US West
US resumes destroying obsolete chemical weapons in Colorado
Lawsuits: Congressional maps dilute black voters in 3 states
Governor signs 6 gun control measures in New Jersey
San Francisco elects first African-American woman as mayor
Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than before
Bird rescue group rehabilitates pelicans that were starving
St. Paul raccoon set free after scaling 25-story tower
Saudi-led forces open assault on Yemen port city of Hodeida
Migrant aid ship on way to Spain as Italy draws deeper line
Macedonia name-change opponents rally forces in 2 countries
Send in the goats: Portugal goes low-tech to beat wildfires
Breakfast Blogs
He’s Not a ‘Firebrand,’ and He’s Not a ‘Far-Right Activist’ Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Mueller to Yevgeniy Prigozhin: Sure You Can Have Discovery … If You Come to the United States to Get It emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Vino Vixen’s purge digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
They’re here Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
What Could Michael Cohen Tell Mueller about Russia Collusion? Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Trump Can End the Russia Probe—But That Doesn’t Mean He Can Obstruct It Timothy Edgar, Lawfare
Today In Texas Justice Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I was a stranger and you invited me in Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Guys, David Brooks Is So Much More Than David Brooks driftglass, at his blog
TRUMP IS GETTING AWAY WITH BEING KIM’S POODLE FOR AN OBVIOUS REASON Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Hey Google: Stop Trying To Patent A Compression Technique An Inventor Released To The Public Domain Mike Masnick, Techdirt